Links for 2024-04-08
AI:
Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve with General Preferences — “In our experiments, a resulting 7B parameter Orca-2.5 model aligned by DNO achieves the state-of-the-art win-rate against GPT-4-Turbo of 33% on AlpacaEval 2.0 (even after controlling for response length), an absolute gain of 26% (7% to 33%) over the initializing model. It outperforms models with far more parameters, including Mistral Large, Self-Rewarding LM (70B parameters), and older versions of GPT-4.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03715
AutoWebGLM: Bootstrap And Reinforce A Large Language Model-based Web Navigating Agent — Presents a GPT-4-outperforming automated web navigation agent built upon ChatGLM3-6B https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03648
ChatGLM-Math: Improving Math Problem-Solving in Large Language Models with a Self-Critique Pipeline https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02893
The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fp1Xf7Ztw
Artificial Intelligence and Automated Laboratories for Biotechnology (scroll down to see the videos) https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/41736_04-2024_artificial-intelligence-and-automated-laboratories-for-biotechnology-leveraging-opportunities-and-mitigating-risks-a-workshop
“I *WAS* WRONG - $10K CLAIMED! ... My initial claim was absolutely WRONG - for which I apologize. I doubted the GPT architecture would be able to solve certain problems which it, with no margin for doubt, solved.” https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1777049193489572064
“Hearing rumors that the next GPT version is very good! Apparently GPT-5 has extremely powerful coding, reasoning and language understanding abilities!” https://x.com/8teAPi/status/1777170803735560194
Technology:
Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-3d-print-key-components-affordable-mass-spectrometer-0404
This 3D printer can figure out how to print with an unknown material https://news.mit.edu/2024/3d-printer-can-print-with-unknown-material-0408
Researchers challenge the limits of molecular memory, opening the door to the development of molecular chips https://phys.org/news/2024-03-limits-molecular-memory-door-chips.html
Engineers 'symphonize' cleaner ammonia production https://phys.org/news/2024-04-symphonize-cleaner-ammonia-production.html
Neuroscience:
Study based on large UK Biobank samples finds that sex can be predicted from brain morphology with close to perfect accuracy, 99.7%. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07096
Politics:
“China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the U.S. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder & has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the U.S.” https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-outpacing-us-defense-industrial-base
Ukraine:
“Something getting lost in the (understandable) doom and gloom about the present state of the Russia-Ukraine war - the absolutely insane scale and rate of continued Russian vehicle losses. These are not remotely sustainable.” https://x.com/NeilPHauer/status/1777316078739132691
China has increased dual use military support for Russia's war on Ukraine. The US National Security Council and other officials say that China is sending: Propellant for missiles; Turbojet engines; Machine tools for the defense industry; Optics; Satellite imagery https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-06/china-is-providing-geospatial-intelligence-to-russia-us-warns [no paywall: https://archive.is/PE0qx]
Intel Chair Turner: ‘Absolutely true’ that Russian propaganda has infected US Congress https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4579289-intel-chair-turner-absolutely-true-russia-propaganda-infected-us-congress/